Here I am looking at all the crap apple is pulling with my 'expensive' intel macbook (the 2019 intel macbook was the most expensive apple ever sold, even top of the line m2 doesn't come close in price now), how are intel mac pro users feeling? The ones who spent north of $20,000...
The main issue for apple is going to be integration with the rest of the computing community once they fully isolate their OS to working on mobile architecture only. While every other desktop OS can handle all sorts of architectures and resulting files. If you think about having to 'deal' with an ipad when sending stuff to it from desktop, that is the future of mac. "File not recognised" etc, as soon as that intel support is fully removed and things are truly ARM only.
Like giving people the option to go 'all out' financially on the 2019 macbooks then basically "doesn't work on intel" (which is actually "apple hasn't bothered getting it to work on intel") is happening before my battery needs replacing.
If you want to know the future of macbook, which was comprised of parts from multiple vendors, now a device comprised of purely apple components...look to ipad. My 2018 ipad pro already won't run ipadOS 16 properly because apparently the cpu isn't capable, even though the A12X was relabelled as an M1 in the mac mini dev machines pre M1 launch.
My entire property won't even be able to fit all the macbooks about to be chucked out for no reason, not just hurting people's wallets but the environment as well with this behaviour.
In the meantime, apparently my $7000 8 core intel i9 can't handle live captioning in the OS but a browser running on Monterey can, I lose half hour out of my battery's 5 hours 100% charged doing this btw, but that's with chrome driving it all instead of the company that just charged me $7000 for a computer that apparently plays dead 3 years after purchase:
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